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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Kinetica vs. LokiJS vs. SpaceTime vs. ToroDB

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsIn-memory JavaScript DBMSSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Websitegeode.apache.orgwww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.mireo.com/­spacetimegithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.kinetica.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.KineticaMireo8Kdata
Initial release20022012201420202016
Current release1.1, February 20177.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++JavaScriptC++Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxAll OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptC#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneFixed-grid hypercubesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationnoneReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodenono infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnoyesAccess rights for users and roles

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